Create a 2-4 page paper that describes personal and professional growth experienced throughout the MBA program and BetterUp coaching and includes an action plan around three personal or professional goals.

Introduction

In our modern world, technology is changing at a tremendously fast pace, and new knowledge is being created in virtually every field daily. With this continuous knowledge creation it is impossible to remain static in your growth and expect to be continually successful. In other words, to stay relevant and effective in the workplace you must always be learning and growing.

Earning your MBA has helped develop you as a business leader, providing you with a tremendous amount of skills and an amazing business foundation. At this point you are ready to go out into the world and be an effective business leader. Yet, it is important to remember that this is the start of your journey, not the end.

You have also learned that knowledge is power, that growth is necessary, and that you must actively work to keep pace with the world around you. You must have a growth mindset and become a lifelong learner to ensure your continued success throughout your career and life. You must constantly be growing as a person and as a leader.

In this assessment you will reflect on your MBA journey and your capstone journey. You will consider how getting to know your strengths has been of value to you, how the BetterUp coaching has helped you to better understand, utilize, and build upon your strengths, and how you can continue to improve upon those strengths, setting goals to propel you into the future.

Preparation

Before completing this assessment you should have:

• Completed the initial BetterUp assessment in Assessment 2.
• Completed at least one BetterUp coaching session.

Assessment Description

Write a paper that summarizes how your strengths—as identified in the BetterUp leadership assessment and improved through your coaching—helped you to create an effective capstone project. Reflect upon how you have grown in this program, in the course, and through your coaching. Discuss how you have applied your strengths and how you would apply those strengths further to enact the recommendations you made in your capstone paper if you worked for that organization. Finally, create some future growth goals for yourself and a brief plan of how you will achieve those goals.

Your paper should address these items:

• Describe how you have grown in the MBA program, in the course, and through the coaching.
  • What was your experience while completing the capstone?
  • How did the capstone allow you to demonstrate the outcomes of the MBA program?
  • Was there anything new you learned during research and writing?
• Discuss how you applied your strengths toward completion of the capstone project.
  • How did you use the leadership strengths assessment results and coaching to help with completing the capstone?
• Discuss how you would apply your leadership strengths if your capstone project recommendations were implemented in the organization.
  • In your capstone, you made recommendations for your selected company. Considering those recommendations, if you worked for that company how might you use your strengths to affect this change?
  • Reflecting on your BetterUp strengths assessment, would you have any new recommendations based on your personal strengths?
  • How might you leverage your own strengths to implement your recommendations?
  • What new strengths, based on the whole person model, might you want to develop to help you implement your recommendations most effectively?
• Create an action plan for at least three future-growth goals.
  • What are three goals that can support your continuing development into the future?
  • How will you apply a growth mindset and what you learned about leadership and your own leadership strengths to stay relevant in the field, meet career goals, et cetera?
  • What are the steps you will take to achieve your goals?
  • How will you support your goals for when you have graduated from the MBA program?

Your reflection and goal-setting paper should be organized with these sections:

• Include an introduction.
• The body of your paper should have these headings, at minimum: Reflection, Applying My Strengths, and Future Goals.
• Include a conclusion.

Submission Requirements

• Style: Your paper should be written in professional style and follow the corresponding MBA Academic and Professional Document Guidelines (located in the MBA Program Resources), including single-spaced paragraphs.
• Communication: Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message and quality.
• APA guidelines: Format your citations according to current APA style.
• Resources: Reference your BetterUp strength assessment results and coaching.
• Length: Your paper should be between 2–4 pages, single-spaced.
• Font and font size: Use 12 point, Times New Roman

• Barhava-Monteith, G., & Fong, M. (2018). Why you need a growth mindset. NZ Business + Management, 32(2), 29.
  • Read this brief article, which overviews some reasons why you, as a business person, need to develop a growth mindset.
• Dweck, C. (2014). Talent: How companies can profit from a “growth mindset.” Harvard Business Review, 92(11), 28–19.
  • Learn more about growth mindset and how it is important in business from the creator of the concept.
• Spencer, J. (2017). Mindsets: Fixed versus growth [Video] | Transcript. Retrieved from
  • View this video for a brief overview of how growth mindset differs from a fixed mindset, considering how a growth mindset can be valuable to you in your career and life.

Read through the case study regarding “The Ethics of Using Hacked Data: Patreon’s Data Hack and Academic Data Standards” (opens in new window).

Discuss the following questions:

1. Does the illegal nature of the data collection and the release of private data taint the data in the release that was already publicly available?

2. Researchers will nearly always claim that their research will have a net public benefit and thus their methods are justified. Who gets to decide if that is accurate in any given case?

3. Based on your knowledge/research, are they any other areas where businesses have gained from the use of hacked data and what do you do to save your data?

2.

Information ethics govern the ethical and moral issues arising from the development and use of information technologies, as well as the creation, collection, duplication, distribution, and processing of information itself (with or without the aid of computer technologies). Ethical dilemmas in this area usually arise not as simple, clear-cut situations but as clashes between competing goals, responsibilities, and loyalties. Inevitably, there will be more than one socially acceptable or “correct” decision. For this reason, acting ethically and legally are not always the same.

Complete the following:

1. Research the Internet and locate two computer use policies for any business/organization (or a link to a computer use policy). NOTE: Many businesses choose to place their computer use policies on internal networks (intranets) rather than open to the public. Many places will have it directly on their websites.
2. Compare and contrast the policies by considering the following questions:
   1. Is one more in-depth than the other?
   2. Do either leave the door open for abuse?
   3. Is the policy clearly defined?
3. Research the Internet for lawsuits based on offensive email and post an article about the lawsuit.
4. Answer this question: Could the lawsuit have been prevented through the implementation of an ethical computer use policy?3.

3.

Read through the case study regarding “The Ethics of Using Hacked Data: Patreon’s Data Hack and Academic Data Standards” (opens in new window).

Discuss the following questions:

1. Does the illegal nature of the data collection and the release of private data taint the data in the release that was already publicly available?

2. Researchers will nearly always claim that their research will have a net public benefit and thus their methods are justified. Who gets to decide if that is accurate in any given case?

3. Based on your knowledge/research, are they any other areas where businesses have gained from the use of hacked data and what do you do to save your data?

4.

discusses sustainable technologies and the technology infrastructure of businesses. It also touches on disaster recovery and business continuity planning as well as the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure. Think about the seven abilities of an agile infrastructure (page 183- figure 5.2) for this discussion- specifically think about reliability and scalability.

The attached spreadsheet contains information for possible business clients. For this discussion:

1. Analyze the data and discuss its reliability. Be sure to highlight issues you found with the data and potential causes of the issues.
2. What solutions do you recommend to make the data more reliable?

Module 5 Info (Excel file)

Questions about anthropology

Essay Questions:  Essay responses should be at least 3-4 paragraphs long. Please include examples from the course texts, and the course modules in your responses. 

1. What does an anthropologist mean by “culture”? How is culture adaptive?  How may culture be maladaptive?  Why is it important to understand that culture can be both adaptive and maladaptive? Is there a shared, unique American culture? Within your response please distinguish between multiculturalism and assimilation. Please provide examples to support your response. 

2. Discuss how anthropologists view the opportunities, as well as challenges, associated with globalization. How may globalization affect cultural diversity? Please support your answer with examples from the course and course readings.

3. What is the public-private distinction in terms of gender? In what kinds of societies is it more pronounced?  Less pronounced (or even nonexistent)?  Is the subordination of women universal? Please use examples to support your response.

4. Human societies are becoming increasingly urban. What are (or will be) some of the effects of increased urbanization? Where are these effects most pronounced? Using the characteristics of anthropology, give a few examples of contributions that anthropologists can make to urban planning?

5. List and describe the different forms of marriage found in human societies. Please choose one of the forms, and discuss how this form of marriage “makes sense” (i.e., is adaptive) using specific examples from the course or course readings.

Short Answer:  Please respond to the following short answer questions. Responses should be at 1-2 paragraphs long. 

1. Describe the concepts of ethnocentrism and cultural relativism. Please give one example of each.

2.What does the still common practice of a wife assuming her husband’s family name indicate about mainstream American kin practices

3. Discuss the major similarities and differences between nuclear families, extended families, and descent groups (e.g., lineages and clans).

4. Describe the ethnographic method. What are its advantages to anthropological research?

5. What kinds of work would applied anthropologists pursue? Provide one example. What aspects of anthropology make it uniquely valuable in application to social problems?

Must be 100% original !

Consolidated Financial Statements and Variable Interest Entities”

• Per the textbook, some investors (e.g., Warren Buffet) have contended that
  the U.S. GAAP treatment undervalued the parent’s investment carrying value for
  post-control step acquisitions. Construct one (1) argument in which you provide
  at least two (2) reasons for the U.S. GAAP treatment of reporting additional
  investments in subsidiaries when the parent previously established control.
  Provide support for your rationale.

• Determine the main characteristics of a variable interest entity (VIE).
  Evaluate the usefulness to investors of the inclusion of VIEs in the company’s
  consolidated financial statements. Provide support for your rationale.